Re: [2.6 patch] unexport is_console_locked

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sat Apr 23 2005 - 19:50:22 EST


On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 16:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.
> >
>
> Is needed for WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED().
>
> It just happens that WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() is currently only using in
> vt.c, which just happens to not support modular usage.
>
> But disabling this export would make WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() pretty useless
> for driver development.
>
> So I'd suggest that we either leave this symbol exported for driver
> developers or we nuke WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() altogether.
>
> Ben, do you still want it?

Yes, I do. Please, keep it exported. On that note, I don't understand
that frenzy of unexporting everything you can, I find this useless
burden in general.

Ben.


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